§ Mr. PRETYMANasked the Secretary to the Treasury the amount of the Stamp Duties received during each of the last five financial years under the following heads: conveyances of real property, mortgages of same, assignments of leasehold property, mortgages of same, assignments of personal property, mortgages of same, and other Stamp Duties?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe figures, so far as they arc available, are as follow:—
— 1908–9. 1909–10. 1910–11. 1911–12. 1912–13. £ £ £ £ £ Conveyances (Lands and Houses) … 635,548 668,317 943,762 1,062,506 1,137,402 Mortgages (Lands and Houses) … 153,676 138,110 132,864 126,786 130,795 Conveyances of other property … 194,587 200,596 270,876 398,864 346,239 Mortgages of other property … 50,578 48,002 51,154 44,205 59,774 All other Stamp Duties … 6,792,996 7,479,480 8,291,962 7,932,218 8,401,265 Total … 7,827,385 8,534,505 9,690,618 9,564,579 10,075,475 The Stamp Duty statistics do not distinguish the duties on transactions in leasehold property from those on dealings in lands and houses generally. Details of the yield of the various Stamp Duties will be found in the Annual Reports of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.